Will House Republicans throw the Birthers a bone?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm not expecting them to impeach Obama over it or anything, but can anyone say they'd be surprised to see some half-assed "investigation" into it take place or something? Or a vote on a Birther-backed bill?

[Landslide Lyndon]

Absolutely. Bhoener and Co. are hostages of these people.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

No. You've been watching too much Ed Schultz.

[SvenssonRS]

If any of them want to keep their jobs, no. They won't.

[tpfkaw]

No.  Anything resembling that will be killed in committee, if not before, and the offending (presumably freshman) rep will be severely punished.

[Vepres]

No. You've been watching too much Ed Schultz.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

No. Even many Tea Partiers, like Ken Buck, have privately criticized their colleagues over the birth certificate affair. (I know that he may have lost, which makes it a bad example, but I'm sure there are plenty of others like that as well.)

[CatoMinor]

No.  Anything resembling that will be killed in committee, if not before, and the offending (presumably freshman) rep will be severely punished.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

No (normal)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The only thing even marginally resembling a bone that might get thrown the Birthers' way would be some sort of legislation requiring that the President-elect and Vice President-elect submit documentation to Congress that they meet the qualifications for the office.  Congress' authority to verify that the President-elect and Vice President-elect qualify for office is certainly implied in the original Constitution, and spelled out in the 20th Amendment.  Since Obama would have no problem meeting such a requirement, it would be a meaningless bone.

Certainly no hearings into whether Obama really is qualified to be President.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

The only thing even marginally resembling a bone that might get thrown the Birthers' way would be some sort of legislation requiring that the President-elect and Vice President-elect submit documentation to Congress that they meet the qualifications for the office.  Congress' authority to verify that the President-elect and Vice President-elect qualify for office is certainly implied in the original Constitution, and spelled out in the 20th Amendment.  Since Obama would have no problem meeting such a requirement, it would be a meaningless bone.

Certainly no hearings into whether Obama really is qualified to be President.

even that would cause a controversy over separation of powers for no reason.

[King]

The Birther movement was hysteria over a popular Democratic President and the huge Democratic majority in both houses.  Now that it looks like the Republicans can win elections again, nobody really cares.

[anvi]

The only thing even marginally resembling a bone that might get thrown the Birthers' way would be some sort of legislation requiring that the President-elect and Vice President-elect submit documentation to Congress that they meet the qualifications for the office.  Congress' authority to verify that the President-elect and Vice President-elect qualify for office is certainly implied in the original Constitution, and spelled out in the 20th Amendment.  Since Obama would have no problem meeting such a requirement, it would be a meaningless bone.

Certainly no hearings into whether Obama really is qualified to be President.

Don't candidates filing for election to federal office already have to supply documentation demonstrating qualification?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The only thing even marginally resembling a bone that might get thrown the Birthers' way would be some sort of legislation requiring that the President-elect and Vice President-elect submit documentation to Congress that they meet the qualifications for the office.  Congress' authority to verify that the President-elect and Vice President-elect qualify for office is certainly implied in the original Constitution, and spelled out in the 20th Amendment.  Since Obama would have no problem meeting such a requirement, it would be a meaningless bone.

Certainly no hearings into whether Obama really is qualified to be President.

Don't candidates filing for election to federal office already have to supply documentation demonstrating qualification?

The States generally do, but not always in the case of the office of President, since technically they have only an indirect role in that by choosing the Electors.  Back in 2004, one of the Socialist parties had as their Vice Presidential nominee someone who didn't meet the age 35 requirement, so in about half the States that they were ballot qualified, they listed an alternate VP candidate because those States wouldn't put their intended choice on the ballot.  Existing Federal law on this subject just makes the assumption that the Electors won't vote for unqualified persons.  Aside from changes to Presidential succession and from Constitutional amendments, the Federal law on this subject dates to the 19th century.

[minionofmidas]

Probably some very minor bone. And not quite immediately.

Or none at all.

[angus]

a bone?  like a mention in a speech?  I doubt it.  Although some Birthers may go on their own unauthorized diatribes on the company's time, perhaps even proposing some type of hearing.  Hopefully any such proposals with be ignored.  Or, if motions are seconded, quickly extinguished.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

No, I have yet to see one serious person who is a Birther. 

Obama's birth was announced in the Hawaiian newspaper a couple of days after he was born = case closed.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

have any doctors come forward as witnesses to obama's birth in hawaii?